July 4, 2007; 08:17 AM IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) announced today that the
free, customizable IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition search software has
become a preferred choice of global customers seeking to extend access
to information and create greater reach into content across the
enterprise.
In the six months since its debut, more than
21,000 search administrators have downloaded IBM OmniFind Yahoo!
Edition and companies like Axioma, Cognos, Groxis, Fortune Interactive,
Schemalogic, Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC ( TDI ), and TnR Global have
developed, and are introducing today, new offerings that integrate with
or support IBM's free search platform.
The advent of new
products announced today demonstrates that organizations of any size
can build advanced solutions with IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition and take
enterprise search and information access to the next level through
capabilities such as search engine optimization, customized team-based
search collaboration and search visualization. Until now, most
advanced, specialized search solutions were out of the reach of many
companies who were unable afford to spend thousands of dollars on an
enterprise search platform to support these applications.
"IBM
OmniFind Yahoo! Edition continues to change the competitive dynamics of
the enterprise search market," said Michael Marshall, chief technical
officer and chief operating officer, Fortune Interactive. "Now that
enterprise search is within reach of any organization, a whole new
window of opportunity has opened to make advanced tools for accessing
and visualizing information available to more users. By providing the
ability to test drive enterprise search for free, IBM OmniFind Yahoo!
Edition is making it possible for a larger number of organizations to
benefit from search and move up the ladder to more advanced
capabilities."
Among the new software announced today, Axioma
Search LLC is releasing the Axioma Corporate Searcher, seamlessly
integrating dynamic context search capabilities with IBM OmniFind
Yahoo! Edition. Axioma's enterprise search technology increases search
ROI through dramatic boosts in relevancy, searcher context control, and
leveraged search results. Axioma's post-search solution lets searchers
control the full results-set of OmniFind Yahoo! Edition. The unique and
competitive features of Axioma's software include clustering
technologies, vertical subject definition and dynamic context tools
which narrow large sets of results to smaller more meaningful ones.
Leveraged search allows users to build pools of sources and reuse, save
and share them with other corporate users generating further ROI
enhancements.
Groxis, a pioneer of visual search technology
and the creator of a patented graphical information interface, has
extended its Grokker web-based enterprise search management platform to
work with IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition. By using the software together,
Grokker combines queries from the IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Enterprise search
engine along with other content sources such as subscription content
sites and public websites. It dynamically categorizes the combined
results and delivers them in an intuitive user interface ideal for use
by content publishers, libraries and other research-intensive
organizations.
Fortune Interactive is introducing a new
Featured Match add-on to provide more influence over search through
search engine optimization. The Featured Match add-on supplements IBM
OmniFind Yahoo Edition's ability to add featured results to direct
users to appropriate content which either needs to be highlighted, or
cannot be found algorithmically. The Featured Match add-on also helps
the OmniFind Yahoo Edition search platform learn from the featured
links provided, delivering similar results based on the same theme and
an added level of search customization.
TnR Global, an
enterprise search consulting company, has released a new free ESearch
component that allows companies to build enterprise search into sites
based on the open source Joomla content management system. The new
ESearch component allows web developers to integrate IBM OmniFind
Yahoo! Edition with Joomla and run it on the same server as the Joomla
system or on an enterprise search server behind a firewall for added
security. The ESearch component provides ease of administration and
customization by Joomla administrators.
Previously, Cognos
announced Cognos 8 Go! Search Service support for IBM OmniFind Yahoo!
Edition enabling users to discover and analyze information on demand by
searching business intelligence managed by Cognos 8 Business
Intelligence and other content stored across the enterprise.
In
addition, TDI, a provider of information security and information
assurance services and solutions, announced they are using the software
in a new information security and compliance solution for organizations
to control massive amounts of data on their network and identify files
containing sensitive information. The new application provides
government and businesses greater control over their information flow
while providing a flexible information protection system by
automatically searching for and obscuring sensitive information and
preventing its release. Schemalogic also announced plans to integrate
its software with IBM's open source search engine.
IBM
OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, which is based on open source Lucene
technology, is enabling innovation by companies of all sizes. The no
charge enterprise search software with Web search services powered by
Yahoo! enables departments and businesses of all sizes to quickly and
easily find, access and capitalize on information stored within
organizations and across the Web. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition makes
enterprise search ubiquitous and free for organizations of any size.
For
developers who want to quickly and inexpensively integrate enterprise
search capabilities into their own applications, IBM OmniFind Yahoo!
Edition provides the best of open community innovation in the form of
Apache's Lucene and combines it with IBM enhancements and support to
create a complete search engine ready to drop into websites and
applications.
IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com.
Worldwide, enterprise-class phone support is available from IBM. For
organizations interested in integrating software with IBM OmniFind
Yahoo! Edition, visit http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/partners/partners.php
About IBM
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